Analysis of Moralistic Servants



Religious intolerance should be oxymoronic.
Instead it's ubiquitous,
a conduct quite sardonic.

Hypocrisy is rampant, incongruent with the creeds,
preach of love and practice hate:
manifested in misdeeds.

Hot-spots all over the globe, in past and present arose,
from distortions of beliefs
many deny or impose.

The crusades and pogroms massacred Muslim and Jew,
extant with other banners:
a current scourge to eschew.

All evil expeditions where faith-tenets instill harm,
must be disowned by leaders
and in all trigger alarm.

Fanatical zealots exercising bigotry,
are moralistic servants
of self-righteous idolatry.


Scheme AXA BXB CXC DED FEF GXG
Poetic Form
Metre 0100100111 0110100 0011010 01001101101 1110101 100001 11110010101001 1010101 1001101 0010011001001 1011010 0101101 1100101110011 1101110 0011001 010010100100 101010 11100100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 597
Words 90
Sentences 7
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 84
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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